Posted April 19, 201410 yr Hello there everybody. My name is Daniel and I'm a newbie to this world of open source operating systems. In the company that I work for I started a project to migrate workstations from Windows XP to Linux. The distribution that we chose was Oracle Linux. Thus far we have been observing the usage of the system with 3 final users and the feedback has been awesome. I haven't received slowness complaints since we replaced Windows for Linux and the only questions we get is how to do this or how to do that, but never the system has frozen and I can't work. The difference is brutal and this is why I am posting this thread, because I would like to hear the experiences from other professionals. Something fairly interesting happened in a very good way, but I can't explain it and I am completely curious about it. Here's the following situation: There were some software products that we just couldn't run on Linux via Wine (Government Software and ERP systems). So in order to overcome this we installed Virtual Box on the machines and installed Windows XP to deal with the government software issue and we used rdesktop to access our Windows based terminal servers for our ERP. In both cases the speed of connection and response was incredibly high. I couldn't stop but wonder, why did it make such a difference since that the machine was the same and a VM running Windows XP was much better than the real machine running the same OS. And regarding the remote RDP connection which was much faster on rdesktop compared to its counterpart mstsc from Windows, why was it so much better to run everything if one would expect to see all of data processing on the server side, not on the client side. I didn't understand it and I saw this with all three pilot users we chose to use Linux. I would like to ask if anyone has experienced something like this.:) Thank you! Continue reading...
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